I recently took over as the moderator of the misc.business.product-dev newsgroup. It is my intention to make it into a good resource for all aspects of product development.
I have set up moderation software and have tested it with a few low-volume threads, and I am now ready to invite more users.
Here is how the moderation works:
Crossposts to one other non-moderated newsgroup are allowed and welcome. That way you can simply keep posting here as you usually do except for crossposting to comp.arch.embedded,misc.business.product-dev instead of just posting to comp.arch.embedded.
I will approve your first post (expect a delay until the next time I log in as moderator - I do this several times per day) and will add you to the whitelist so that all future posts by you are autoapproved without delay. I will also be whitelisting many threads.
All posts will be approved unless they are obvious spam or off-topic trolling. This, by the way, gives you a chance to have a conversation about product development in a newsgroup that is full of trolls and flamers; simply crosspost to misc.business.product-dev. read the thread in misc.business.product-dev, and I will reject any trolling, flaming, political/religious posts, etc. I will *not* censor posts for content as long as they have at least a marginal connection with product development.
I have the ability to give others the power to moderate, and the software to do so is web-based and easy to use, so if anyone is interested, let me know.
Right now misc.business.product-dev is pretty much a dead group, but I am hoping that I can revive it. I can't do it alone, so I am asking for your help.